Nevaeh had to move again to, a new school, city, and even state to run from her past. In her efforts to stay low, she creates even more uproar at Lakeside High. Everyone wants to know why the new girl is so quiet yet familiar.
James as typical as it sounds is the school's mysterious bad boy, who rides a motorcycle to school and gets into more fights than can be counted.
When the two are thrown together for an Anatomy project they begin to unravel each other's secrets and grow closer than either of them wants.
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While we walk through the hall she continues blabbering about how hot this James is, until she suddenly stops and clutches my arm. "That's him! That's him! OMG look!" She points at the boy from my biology class. Oh great I already spoke it. "Oh that guy, I have two classes with him, he is really cute!" That boy looks like the human embodiment of a Doberman, cute is an understatement. I see what they say now. Before, I saw him sitting wearing a baggy hoodie and sweatpants. Now that he's standing I see he's not cute, he's hot. Bad Nevaeh bad! He's about six foot three, lean muscle, dark wavy hair, and those same blue eyes still stare at me.
"What the hell? He was totally just checking you out. How are you so calm right now? I'd literally be screaming!" The only part of me that's screaming right now is the part that wants to know why he looks so familiar.
After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister.
For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives.
For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind.
Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn.
As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.